Maria, Maria
A Novel
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Maria, Maria
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Jennifer Galvão
On a warm spring night in 1949, Benedito da Silva kills a man: a drunken stranger who has followed him home and attacked Bene’s new bride. When the dead man’s powerful family promises revenge, Bene is forced to flee Portugal and enlist with the famous White Fleet of codfishing ships. For the next seven years, he will troll dangerous Arctic waters in his one-man dory, unable to return home.
Maria Lucilia, nicknamed Cilia, is a young wife married to a man she might never see again. Before meeting Bene, Cilia had been a lonely orphan, raised by nuns in the local convent. Now that Bene has fled, she feels like an outsider within the da Silva family but is tasked with keeping the struggling household afloat in his absence.
Maria Alvares, a widow in her early thirties, runs a shop in the Newfoundland port town of St. John’s where the fishermen spend their offseason. Bene is a customer, and his easy affection catches her off guard, disrupting the rhythms of her quiet, grief-stricken life. Lonely and isolated, she and Bene find refuge in each other.
Unable to return home, unable to read or write, Bene asks his new mistress to write a love letter to the wife he left behind. Cilia recognizes the fine penmanship of a woman in the letter she receives. Though she suspects the scribe is more than just a friend, Cilia has no choice but to rely on this invisible messenger for news of her husband. And when Bene faces danger at sea, the two women must speak to each other directly—entering a fraught, unconventional relationship all their own.
Soulful, heart-wrenching, and unforgettable, Jennifer Galvão’s debut is a masterfully crafted portrait of love in its most enduring and unlikely forms.
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Commentaires
“A transporting, romantic, immensely generous novel about love in its many forms. Jennifer Galvão is a writer of the highest order, one to be spoken of alongside Amy Bloom and Colm Tóibín and Maggie Shipstead, and her debut, Maria, Maria is simply a marvel.”—Jenny Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street
“Maria, Maria is a wondrous novel; I completely lost myself inside its pages. The dazzling prose and vivid, evocative storytelling made me think of Elena Ferrante—it’s that good. I adored it.”—Clare Leslie Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Broken Country
“What a rare and astonishing gift, a novel so richly transporting that it replaces life with its dream. Maria, Maria is an extraordinary depiction of the many dimensions of love and the ways women bend but do not break, and it stunned me on every page. Jennifer Galvão has done something remarkable here: She has made a world. I could hardly bear to leave it.”—Julie Buntin, author of Famous Men and Marlena
“Maria, Maria is that rare gem: a debut novel that feels like a classic, at once tender, tragic, and transcendent. Galvão is a luminous new talent.”—Peter Ho Davies, author of A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself and The Welsh Girl
“Maria, Maria is a wondrous novel; I completely lost myself inside its pages. The dazzling prose and vivid, evocative storytelling made me think of Elena Ferrante—it’s that good. I adored it.”—Clare Leslie Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Broken Country
“What a rare and astonishing gift, a novel so richly transporting that it replaces life with its dream. Maria, Maria is an extraordinary depiction of the many dimensions of love and the ways women bend but do not break, and it stunned me on every page. Jennifer Galvão has done something remarkable here: She has made a world. I could hardly bear to leave it.”—Julie Buntin, author of Famous Men and Marlena
“Maria, Maria is that rare gem: a debut novel that feels like a classic, at once tender, tragic, and transcendent. Galvão is a luminous new talent.”—Peter Ho Davies, author of A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself and The Welsh Girl
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